September 26, 2024: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Rebecca Dirnfeld
Rebecca Dirnfeld is a Career Educator with the UBC Career Centre – come learn her career planning strategies!
November 7, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Jerry Achar and Aaron Aguirre
Two talks on:
1. Conservative Consensus QSAR prediction of rat acute oral toxicity of chemicals: implication for decision-making under conditions of uncertainty, and,
2. The Twilight Zoning: Influences of Urban Land Use on Bat Activity in the Metro Vancouver Region
September 5, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Rudri Bhatt and Glory Apantaku (First Seminar of Term 1)
Two BC-focused talks from two stellar grad students, covering climate action plans and air pollution emissions inventories!
October 10, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Ming Cao
Our grad student Ming Cao will share her talk titled– Soil matters: evaluating soil water dynamics and soil greenhouse gas emissions under climate-smart agriculture
April 4, 2024: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Dr. Mark Drever
Dr. Mark Drever will speak about his ongoing research on Western Sandpipers and their reliance on essential nutrients available on intertidal biofilm
April 11, 2024: IRES Faculty Seminar with Michael Brauer
What management policies are necessary for the global health impacts from environmental risks? Dr. Michael Brauer discusses this and more.
April 18, 2024: IRES Student Symposium with Lindah Ddamba, Remzi Xhemalce-Fuentes, Dayna Rachkowski (Last Seminar in Term 2)
Talk titles at Student Symposium:
1. Energy Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of the Factors Inhibiting Accelerated Progress
2. EXPLORING EMPOWERMENT THROUGH BILL S-5: building government accountability in chemicals management using a right to a healthy environment
3. IMAGINING POSSIBLE ROLES FOR GREEN HYDROGEN IN MEXICO. Between Hype and a Leapfrogging Opportunity
March 14, 2024: No Seminar this Week
There is no IRES Seminar on March 14, 2024.
March 7, 2024: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Claire Ewing
Curious about moving from academia to policy work? Claire Ewing shares her journey after graduating from IRES and what she’s learned so far from her current, amazing job at Metro Vancouver.